GRAAFF-REINET NEWS - Two men, age 19 and 24, briefly appeared in the Graaff-Reinet Magistrate's Court on Tuesday, on charges of rape and robbery after allegedly brutally assaulting six women and raping three of them. 

The case was postponed until 12 October and the suspects remain in custody.

The two men were arrested on 8 August by the Graaff-Reinet Family Violence, Child Protection and Sexual Offences Unit, as well as members of the Graaff-Reinet Operational Command Centre. Capt Bradley Rawlinson, Police Spokesperson, said the allegations are that the men, armed with knives on 7 August just past 16:00, attacked the group of women, where after they raped three of them. 

The group was walking home from work to Santaville when the attack happened. They did not have enough taxi money. A family member of one of the six women alleged that the men held all the women hostage in bushes in the Wolwas district. 

When one woman pretended that she is sick and needed medical care, the three other women managed to escape the nightmare.

Police said they are withholding the names of the suspects for the safety of the victims and their families.

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